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King Charles 'won't rip up the royal rule book' at Christmas - but he's more relaxed


While previous royal Christmases have been spent at Windsor Castle, it is traditional that the family come together at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk - and they'll do the same this year

The Royal Family attend the service at St Mary Magdalene Church (Image: Getty)With food playing such an integral part in proceedings, there’s usually plenty of interest in the action behind the kitchen doors. The Royal Family's Boxing Day sees the men and women go their separate ways (Image: PA)Rumour has it that at the beginning and end of the Sandringham Christmas, guests have traditionally been weighed. Tina Brown wrote in The Palace Papers, “As anyone who saw the movie Spencer knows, there’s a honk-honk tradition of family members getting weighed like French geese, first on arrival and then on departure, to record precisely how much justice they, and their livers, have done to the artery-clogging feast.”

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